Tag: CARBONNANOTUBES

Scientists at UCLA have constructed the world's smallest light bulb. When it's turned off, the tiny filament is invisible to the naked eye. Flip the switch, however, and it becomes a tiny pin-prick of light. The minuscule bulb was created using carbon nanotube technology, a much touted scientific breakthrough that has, until now, been used to do little else other than create portraits of our ...

Barack Obama has made quite a stir since winning the election two weeks ago. He's promising change, big change, and with Democrats taking control of the House and Senate, he should have all the tools he needs to deliver it. His promises may be big, but Assistant Professor John Hart at the University of Michigan is highlighting his persona in something very, very small, by creating a series of ...

Some good news if you've always been jealous of Peter Parker's ability to scale walls in a leotard. Nicola Pugno of Italy's Polytechnic University of Turin is spending precious research dollars to help man stick to walls -- though, sans-leotard. The secret is carbon nanotubes, structures of carbon that are rolled into cylinders just one nanometer thick. These structures are so impossibly small, ...